Hi Joel,
Thanks for posting your questions here. As for your question:
1. Can I use it with our HTML based site?
Our controls are for ASP.NET. So:
a. Your server must support ASP.NET;
b. Your web site must be an ASP.NET application;
c. The control must be sitting inside an .aspx page instead of an .html page;
Having that said, converting an HTML page into .aspx page is fairly easy --- sometimes can be as easy as rename file extension. You should be able to find plenty of resources on how to do that online.
2. Can I link to it with a standard hyperlink?
Yes. You can use a standard hyperlink to display our Calendar/DatePicker control. You will need to be able to work with some basic JavaScript in order to use this feature. See here for an example:
http://www.essentialobjects.com/Demo/Default.aspx?path=Calendar\_i1\_i5 3. Does it retain the information between visits to the web site?
Yes. It saves information in ASP.NET ViewState. So obviously you will need to have that working first (it's enabled by default);
4. Can I get help deploying it to our site?
We expect you to have some basic ASP.NET knowledge. In another word, if you have problem with deploying with just standard ASP.NET stuff from MS and without using our product, it would be mostly likely a generic ASP.NET deploying problem. In that case we don't mind to give you a few pointers so that you know where to look, but obviously we do not have the resource to troubleshoot such problems step by step for everybody who uses ASP.NET.
We would be happy to help if your existing ASP.NET application has been working fine and you encountered some problems after adding our controls (for example, license problems, version problems),
Thanks